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Subsections
Covenant of Works
First Sin
Original Sin
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Order of Contents
Articles 10+
Quote 1
Fall of Angels 4
Latin 3
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Articles
1500’s
Calvin, John – 1. ‘Through the Fall & revolt of Adam the whole Human Race made accursed and degenerate. Of Original Sin.’ in Institutes of the Christian Religion tr. Henry Beveridge (1559; Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1845), vol. 1, bk. 2, pp. 281-97
Musculus, Wolfgang – Common Places of the Christian Religion (1560; London, 1563)
‘Fall of Man’ 12.b
‘What the Fall of the First Man was’ 13.a
‘The manner of the Transgression’ 13.b
2. ‘What is the strength, working and pain of the sin of our first parents’ 13.b
3. ‘Of the pain of sin that was laid upon Adam for his transgression’ 14.b
‘To whom the Fall of Mankind is imputed’ 16.a
4. ‘To what purpose of God mankind fell in Adam’ 17.a
Beza, Theodore – A Brief & Pithy Sum of the Christian Faith made in Form of a Confession (London, 1562), Ch. 3
10. How man brought himself with all his posterity culpable of the First and Second death
11. The way which leads to the first death
12. The first death cannot be eternal
Viret, Pierre – A Christian Instruction… (d. 1571; London: Veale, 1573)
The Sum of the Principal Points of the Christian Faith
9. Of Man, and of the Creation & Fall of Him by Sin 10-11
A Familiar Exposition of the Principal Points of the Catechism, and of the Christian Doctrine, made in Form of Dialogue
3rd Dialogue: Of the Fall & Restoring of Man
Of Man’s Freewill
Of Sin, and of the nature of it, and what original sin is properly
Of the Mean whereby man may be delivered from sin, and from the wrath of God, which sin brings to him
Of the Causes for the which there is neither man nor Angel sufficient to the office of mediator between God and man, and of the greatness of the wrath of God against sin
Of the Setting Forth of the Just Judgement, & of the mercy of god, in the redemption of man
The Exposition of the Preface of the Law
Zanchi, Girolamo – Confession of the Christian Religion… (1586; Cambridge, 1599), pp. 31-37 & 278-79
Ch. 7, ’Of Man’s Fall, and of Original Sin and the Fruits Thereof’
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Perkins, William
‘Adam’s Fall’ in An Exposition of the Symbol, or Apostles’ Creed… (Cambridge, 1595), p. 106
Perkins (d. 1602) was an influential, puritan, Anglican clergyman and Cambridge theologian.
A Golden Chain (Cambridge: Legat, 1600)
11. Of Man’s Fall & Disobedience
54. Concerning a New Devised Doctrine of Predestination taught by some New & Late Divines, 2. God did foreknow Adam’s Fall, but He did not by his eternal decree foreordain it; therefore his fall was without the agent permission of God
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1600’s
Ames, William – The Marrow of Theology tr. John D. Eusden (1623; Baker, 1997), bk. 1
ch. 11, ‘Man’s Apostasy or Fall’, pp. 113-16
ch. 12, ‘The Consequences of Sin’, pp. 116-20
Ames (1576-1633) was an English, puritan, congregationalist, minister, philosopher and controversialist. He spent much time in the Netherlands, and is noted for his involvement in the controversy between the reformed and the Arminians. Voet highly commended Ames’s Marrow for learning theology.
Polyander, Johannes – 14. ‘On the Fall of Adam’ in Synopsis of a Purer Theology: Latin Text & English Translation Buy (1625; Brill, 2016), vol. 1, pp. 338-50
Wolleb, Johannes – 9. ‘The Fall of the First Parents, and the Beginning of Human Suffering’ in Abridgment of Christian Divinity (1626) in ed. John Beardslee, Reformed Dogmatics: J. Wollebius, G. Voetius & F. Turretin (Oxford Univ. Press, 1965), bk. 1, pp. 66-69
Wolleb (1589–1629) was a Swiss reformed theologian. He was a student of Amandus Polanus.
Leigh, Edward – ch. 1. Of the Fall of Man in A System or Body of Divinity… (London, A.M., 1654), bk. 4, pp. 303-8
Rijssen, Leonard – ch. 9, ‘The Law, the Fall & Sin’ in A Complete Summary of Elenctic Theology & of as Much Didactic Theology as is Necessary tr. J. Wesley White MTh thesis (Bern, 1676; GPTS, 2009), pp. 82-100
Rijssen (1636?-1700?) was a prominent Dutch reformed minister and theologian, active in theological controversies.
Turretin, Francis – Institutes of Elenctic Theology, tr. George M. Giger, ed. James Dennison Jr. (1679–1685; P&R, 1992), vol. 1, 9th Topic
6. ‘What was the first sin of man—unbelief or pride?’ 604
7. ‘How could a holy man fall, and what was the true cause of his fall?’ 606
8. ‘Whether Adam by his fall lost the image of God. We affirm.’ 611
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1700’s
Venema, Herman – Translation of Hermann Venema’s inedited Institutes of Theology tr. Alexander W. Brown (d. 1787; Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1850)
28. The Fall (Man’s Fall, its Cause, Exterior & Interior, the Tempter, Manner & Various Steps of his Temptation, Nature of Fall, its Quality & Quantity, God’s Providence Exercised in Permitting & Directing the Fall) 455-67
29. Sin & its Consequences (Sin Considered Abstractly, What it Implies, Different Kinds of Law, Sin’s Matter & Form, Nature of a Sin of Commission, Different Views, Proved to be an Act contrary to Law, Objections, Are Unfinished Purposes to Sin in the Regenerate of Sin’s Nature?, Attributes of Sin, Effects of, Corruption or Depravity, Condemnation & Punishment, Eternity of Future Punishments, Temporal Evils, Punitive, Corrective, Castigatory & Tentative) 467-90
20. Effects of the Fall (First Parents’ Condition After Fall, Sentence Pronouned upon by God, Posterity’s Condition, Original Sin, Proofs, Origin, Extent & External Effects of Moral Depravity, Different Kinds of Sin, Sin Against Holy Ghost, Universality of Moral Depravity Explained & Proved, Not Inconsistent with Liberty) 490-514
31. Effects of the Fall (Condemnation, Proofs, Causes of Depravity, Proximate Cause, How Propagated, Remote Cause, Immediate & Mediate Imputation, Mediate Proved, Objections Answered) 514-32
Venema (1697-1787) was a professor at Franeker. Venema “maintained the fundamental line of confessional orthodoxy without drawing heavily on any of the newer philosophies… and maintained a fairly centrist Reformed position. Venema… evidence[s] the inroads of a rationalistic model…” – Richard Muller
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Samuel Rutherford
Christ Dying & Drawing Sinners to Himself (London: 1647), p. 239
“Position 6. Grace is not educed or extracted out of the potency of any created nature. Grace is born in heaven and came from the inmost of the heart of Christ; it has neither seed nor parent on earth; therefore the Lord challenges it as his own, 2 Cor. 12.9, ‘The Lord said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee.’ 2 Tim. 2:1, ‘The grace that is in Christ Jesus.’ 1 Cor. 15:10, ‘The grace of God.’ 2 Cor. 13:14, ‘The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.’ Gal. 1:15, ‘He called me by his grace.’
If we could engage the grace of God, or prevent it [come before it], then should grace be our birth; but grace is not essential to angels. It’s a doubt if any creature can be capable by nature of any possibility-natural not to sin; it is much to know the just owner of grace who begot it? It came out of the eternal womb and bowels of Jesus Christ.”
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On the Fall of Angels
Articles
1500’s
Viret, Pierre – A Christian Instruction… (d. 1571; London: Veale, 1573), The Exposition of the Preface of the Law, The Exposition of the Preface of the Law
Finch, Henry – 13. Of our own Righteousness, whereof the State of Angels & Men, before and by their Fall in The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity gathered out of the Word of God… (Middelburg: 1589), bk. 2
Finch (d. 1625) was an English lawyer and politician.
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1600’s
Perkins, William – 10. Of Sin & the Fall of Angels in A Golden Chain (Cambridge: Legat, 1600)
Turretin, Francis – 9th Topic, Question 5, ‘What was the sin of the angels by which they are said to have rebelled against God?’ in Institutes of Elenctic Theology (P&R, 1992), vol. 1, pp. 601-4
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Latin
1600’s
Pareus, David – Bk. 3 of 6 Books on the Loss of Grace & the State of Sin by Robert Bellarmine… to which three following are joined, on Original Sin, are Explicated & Castigated (Heidelberg, 1613) ToC
Pareus (1548-1622) was a German Reformed Protestant theologian and reformer.
Wendelin, Marcus Friedrich – ch. 9, ‘Of the Disobedience of the First Men, Adam & Eve, & its Effects Concerning the First Men’ in Christian Theology (Hanau, 1634; 2nd ed., Amsterdam, 1657), bk. 1, ‘Knowledge of God’, pp. 198-205
Voet, Gisbert – I. ‘Of the Fall of Adam’ in Syllabus of Theological Problems (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 1, tract 4 Abbr.
Of the Cause of the Fall
In which the Fall Consisted
Of the Greatness & Weight
Of Other Adjuncts, of the Necessity & Possibility
Of the Effects & Consequences
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